It's the windies I'm anxious about, for they're ower big to fill up.

But I've gotten tubs of water below them and a lot o' wire-nettin' I fund in the cellar." Sir Archie morosely wiped his brow.

"I can't say I ever hated a job more," he told Saskia.

"It seems pretty cool to march into somebody else's house and make free with his furniture.

I hope to goodness our friends from the sea do turn up, or we'll look pretty foolish.